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‘Gaza is a jail. Nobody is allowed to leave. We are all starving now’

By Patrick Cockburn in Gaza | The Independent | 8 September 2006   Gaza is dying. The Israeli siege of the Palestinian enclave is so tight that its people are on … Continue reading

9 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Lessons from Lebanon: Rethinking national liberation movements

by Hamid Dabashi | Al Ahram Weekly | 7 – 13 September 2006, Issue No. 811  The key question in drawing any enduring lesson from Lebanon in the aftermath of … Continue reading

9 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Bad Democracy Award

I’ve just discovered that openDemocracy actually conducts a monthly ‘Bad Democracy’ poll. It is, naturally, democratically determined by reader polling. I happen to think we don’t look enough at successes, … Continue reading

7 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

The global politics of cricket

Still an interesting read if, like me, you’re not much into cricket or any form of organised sport (not including politics :) ) By Ehsan Masood | Open Democracy | … Continue reading

7 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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